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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Splintering"”.
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Militants Going Through Changes: A Qualitative Analysis of Ideological Modification and Group Splintering
The probability of militant group splintering is a relatively rare phenomenon that exponentially increases with the introduction of a peace process and associated negotiations (Duursma and Fliervoet, 2021). Militant groups that do splinter hold the potential for increased violence that can spoil …
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The influence of primary nucleation and rime splintering on ice number concentrations in southern ocean cumuli
… for secondary ice production by rime splintering (graupel, cloud droplets exceeding 25 μm diameter, and occurrence within the -3 to -9 C temperature range). High-resolution, 3D idealized numerical simulations of a cumulus cloud undergoing primary ice nucleation with the observed …
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Power Centrality as a relational measure of urban hierarchy : testing the splintering urbanism theory with social media data from Santiago de Chile
… to assess a recent model of Urban Structure: The Splintering Urbanism Theory of Graham and Marvin (2001). This theory posits that the contemporary city is a fragmented agglomeration of isolated urban pieces, where distant but valuable fragments are highly connected between them, bypassing their …
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The junction: transcending sociotechnical divides through youth space
… continues to perpetuate the effects of splintering urbanism in South African cities. Where apartheid planning policies such as the group areas act used infrastructure as a mechanism of social organisation, this design dissertation proposes using architecture as social infrastructure to …
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Insurgency, Secession and Encroachment: Contemporary National Security in the Republic of the Philippines
… incarnations; the birth, legitimization, and splintering of the Muslim secessionist movement; the external threat posed by the People's Republic of China; and the Spratly Islands dispute. It also evaluates the new security relationship between the United States and the Philippines.
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Agricultural policy-making in the Eisenhower administration
… as well as its values and priorities. Third, the splintering of the old farm bloc during the 1950's makes the politics of the Eisenhower farm programs interesting. Of special interest was the question of whether the breakup of the farm bloc or the rise of a large number of urban constituencies in …
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A year in the city
… in which difference, otherness, fragmentation, splintering, multiplicity, heterogeneity, diversity, [and] plurality prevail." A Year in the City intends to celebrate cultural and racial heterogeneity. It is accompanied by a research dissertation of 30, 000 words, that investigates the …
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Politics among rebels: the causes of division between dissidents
… with increased probabilities of rebel group splintering and the formation of ethnically-homogeneous alliances. I supplement these quantitative analyses with case studies of several secessionist movements in Burma. Ultimately, I find that repression substantially increases the probability that …
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Snowfall Characterization by Field Observation and Atmospheric Sounding
… and secondary ice formation (such as rime splintering) aloft. Identifying the number of ice crystals requires a degree of persistence and skill, is not readily automated, and is capable of providing key information on the growth history of ice crystals, not obtainable by other means. …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… century and to trace how persistently the splintering of the political imaginary in the 1640s was inscribed in the literary forms of the decades following the close of the civil wars. In the later Stuart era--as in the century's earlier decades--the past is never dead; it is not even past.
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"When the saints go marching in" : sadhus in democratic politics in late 20th century India
… the unity among sadhus in one period and the splintering of that unity at another time.
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The Wartime Experience of the League of Nations, 1939-47
… with the League’s international civil service splintering under the weight of internal and external pressures. The League’s wartime experience also underscored the reality that internationalism was a contested concept. The League’s brand of internationalism, with its aim of universalising the …
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Methods for predicting inventory levels in a segmented retail supply chain
… Nike has responded to this complexity by splintering their supply chain into smaller segments, tailoring each segment to specific market and consumer needs. As a result of these market developments and Nike's organizational response, the task of understanding and predicting inventory …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… while the narratives as a whole exploit this splintering of the self to suggest a variety of allegorical readings. The chapters on Player Piano, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions discuss how the Puritan foundations of American culture play a major part in the construction of the …
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Transaction Cost Economics: An Analysis of Commitment in Asymmetrical Insurer-Broker Dyads. An Exploratory Case Study of ING Canada and its Distribution Counterparties
… of commitment continues to advance and has begun splintering and applied into specific and narrow fields. The particular field of interest in this study surrounds commitment levels in business relationships within property and casualty insurance distribution networks. The intent of understanding …
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Automatic classification of electronic music and speech/music audio content
… rapid evolution of the genre and subsequent splintering into distinctive subgenres. As such, features are extracted from electronic music samples in an experiment to categorize song samples into three subgenres: deep house, dubstep, and progressive house. An overall classification performance …
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Examining the interconnection between queer women's resistance and their social worlds in South Africa from 1980 to 2010
… movement due to racism and sexism. Lastly, this splintering led to the development of a more radical and feminist-oriented approach to LGBTQ+ liberation by black lesbian women. These findings are important as they document both queer women's experiences of intersectional oppression both within …
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Printing Politics: The Emergence of Political Parties in Florida, 1821-1861
… the Whigs suffered from constant in-fighting and splintering. This led to the Democratic domination of politics and, in the South, the ability of secession supporters to control the public conversation during the Sectional Crisis of the 1850s and lead the nation to war. This dissertation also …
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Organizational Fragmentation and the Trajectory of Militant Splinter Groups
… landscape. This process of organizational splintering historically has created some of the deadliest and most well known organizations including Al Shabaab, Black September, and the Real IRA. However, at other times the new organizations have quickly disappeared, failing to impact the …
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Decentralizing Power: Enabling Local Energy Resilience and Equity in Accra
… reinforcing a new form of energy infrastructure splintering—where only the affluent benefit. My thesis concludes that addressing energy insecurity in Accra requires strategic institutional and policy reforms to reconfigure governance, empower municipalities, and enable inclusive financing and …
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